Duke in the News: Feb. 7, 2007
Sisters of Different Blues | Children's Drug Trial Program Gives Boost to Medicine, Profits | Column: The Biggest Secret in Health Care, and more…
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
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SISTERS OF DIFFERENT BLUES
(Durham) Herald-Sun, Feb. 7 -- On the verge of tonight's UNC-Duke men's basketball game and Thursday night's Blue Devil-Tar Heel women's battle, Mary Pishny, a sophomore at UNC, and Elle Pishny, a senior at Duke, are feeling anything but sisterly. ... Full story
--Also, USA Today: Fans Will Be Able to Get Their Fill of North Carolina-Duke Rivalry ... Full story
(Raleigh) News & Observer: This Town Is Big Enough ... Full story
News & Observer: Audio Slide Show -- The Cameron Crazies ... Full story
Mercury News, McClatchy Newspapers: North Carolina, Duke Coaches Cash In as Marketers' Dreams ... Full story
CHILDREN'S DRUG TRIAL PROGRAM GIVES BOOST TO MEDICINE, PROFITS
CBC News, Feb. 6 -- A government program aimed at fostering clinical trials into the safety and effectiveness of medicines for children is doing just that, new Duke research shows, but it's also generating millions of dollars in profits for the makers of some popular drugs. (Story also appeared in USA Today and more than 75 other news outlets.) ... Full story
COLUMN: THE BIGGEST SECRET IN HEALTH CARE
Wall Street Journal, Feb. 7 -- Clark Havighurst, an expert in health care law and policy at Duke, points to one of the consequences of insured consumers believing that someone other than themselves is paying for their health care. (Link for subscribers; e-mailed upon request to dukenews@duke.edu.) ... Full story for subscribers
COLUMN: AT COLLEGE, STUDENTS ARE STILL POLITICAL
Herald-Sun, Feb. 4 -- Editor Bob Ashley notes what he sees as a healthy trend -- an increased likelihood that college students care and talk about political issues. ... Full story
GOVERNMENT SELLING HOUSE DUST FOR $450
UPI, Feb. 6 -- Professor Heather Stapleton of Duke's Nicholas School discusses her study of household dust samples, which revealed more hydrocarbons produced by car exhaust, garbage incineration and the burning of fossil fuels. ... Full story
COMMENTARY: IRAN OPTIONS
TPMCafe, Feb. 5 -- Sanctions against Iran are not a strategy in themselves, says Duke public policy professor Bruce Jentleson, but "they also shouldn’t be undersold." ... Full story
CONSIDER SACRIFICING WAR, THEOLOGIAN SUGGESTS
Billings (Mont.) Gazette, Feb. 6 -- Stanley Hauerwas, a professor in the Duke Divinity School, says his reputation as a controversial theologian comes from expecting Christians to be faithful to the sometimes-radical message of Jesus Christ. ... Full story
ON THE AIR
Duke law professor Walter Dellinger discusses "The Rehnquist Revolution," the subject of the fourth and final episode in PBS's series on the history of the Supreme Court, airing tonight. ... Details/watch
Duke historian John Hope Franklin talks about the redemptive power of confronting the past during an appearance on public radio’s "The Story" today. ... Details/listen
Philip Rosoff, director of the Duke Hospital Clinical Ethics Program, will join a discussion on North Carolina Public Radio’s "The State of Things" Wednesday about what's next for the death penalty, which has effectively been put on hold in North Carolina. ... Details/listen
